Question

I have a string in the format “3 Dec 2012 1:00PM” and I need to parse out date and time so that I can get “3 Dec 2012” and “1:00PM” in separate NSStrings. How would I do that?

Answer 1

NSString *strInput = @"3 Dec 2012 1:00PM";
static NSString *format = @"dd MMM yyyy hh:mma";

NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"GMT"]];
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:format];
NSLocale *usLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"];
[dateFormatter setLocale:usLocale];
NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:strInput];


static NSString *format1 = @"dd MMM yyyy";
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:format1];
NSString *strDatePart1 = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]; // gives 3 Dec 2012
static NSString *format2 = @"hh:mma";
[dateFormatter setDateFormat:format2];
NSString *strDatePart2 = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date]; // gives 1:00PM